CEDAR RAPIDS – Buoyed by recent success in their effort to save flood-affected commercial buildings from demolition, members of the Cedar Rapids Historic Preservation Commission have asked the city to delay demolition on another round of properties. The commission pointed to 13 of 27 buildings on ...

Jitro, an internationally renowned girls choir from the Czech Republic, will be showcased in a free performance in Cedar Rapids. The concert will be at 7 p.m., Sunday, March 4, 2012, at St. Wenceslaus Church, 1224 5th St. SE. Here is more about the group: JITRO, meaning "Daybreak" in Czech, ...

CEDAR RAPIDS – The city’s Historic Preservation Commission is making a preemptive strike to save an 83-year-old school building. Commission members voted Thursday, Feb. 9, to add Harrison Elementary School to its Most Endangered Properties list. The commission last month had finalized the list – created to ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — He sounds like Dean Martin one minute, Frank Sinatra the next. He holds a glass of light brown liquid (not always whiskey) in one hand. He banters with the audience as if everyone is his best friend. Who is this man in the tux behind ...

"Clang, clang, clang went the trolley/Ding, ding, ding went the bell/Zing, zing, zing went my heartstrings/As we started for . . . . . . any station the trolley stopped. Or, so hopes Linda Betsinger McCann, a historian/writer from Shell Rock who has put out a call ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — You don’t need acres of land to create your own wildlife habitat. Susan Day, a backyard bird and habitat expert, says even small yards can attract songbirds, butterflies, hummingbirds and other wildlife to enjoy. “It doesn’t have to be a 3-acre yard,” says Day, 58, ...

Workers with D.W. Zinser Company are demolishing the food-damaged Time Check Recreation Center on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Following are gardening and eco-events scheduled for February 2012 in Eastern Iowa: Wed., Feb. 1, 10 a.m., REAL Walk: Hughes Nursery Museum Tour; Indian Creek Nature Center gives you a unique opportunity to go back to the early 1900’s when a local business began. Tour the ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — As Del Block and Dale Siems grew up in Franklin County, they were well aware of the family resemblance. They just thought, as cousins, genetics had played a trick on them. "We each grew up about ten miles from Hampton," says Dale who ...

CEDAR RAPIDS -- Bowl for Kids’ Sake, the largest annual fundraising event for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Cedar Rapids and East Central Iowa, runs Jan, 19 through Feb. 16, 2012, at the Cedar Rapids Bowling Center.  Bowl For Kids’ Sake is Big Brothers Big Sisters’ ...